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BOSS and AVCIS sign information sharing agreement
BOSS has signed an information sharing agreement (ISA) with the Association of Chief Police Officers Vehicle Crime Intelligence Service (AVCIS) that will enable the wider circulation of vehicles of interest, particularly with regards to linking vehicles that owe money for fuel to be linked to other criminality. Kevin Eastwood, executive ...
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Students warned over tobacco smuggling
Students in Cardiff are being warned not to get involved in cigarette smuggling after parcels containing non-duty paid foreign brands were seized by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC). In the last week, officers have seized 45 parcels of illegal cigarettes destined for student properties in the Cathays area of Cardiff. ...
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HMRC raids illicit fuel plant
A laundering plant capable of producing more than 16.4million litres of illicit fuel a year and potentially evading around £10.6m in taxes and duty was dismantled by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) after a raid on Wednesday night. Officers from HMRC, the Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA) and the Police ...
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Cigarette smuggler jailed
A man from Bridgend in South Wales, who smuggled 485,000 cigarettes and hundreds of counterfeit watches into the UK, has been jailed. The duty loss on the cigarettes is estimated at £125,000. HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) officers seized the cigarettes and watches from a Bridgend storage unit in January ...
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NewsFuel duty deferment scheme a real ’game changer’
Fuel retailers could save signficant sums of money by buying fuel under duty deferment terms available from HMRC, claimed Alan Powell of tax specialist Alan Powell Associates, at this week’s Regeneration Forum at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors in Westminster. The Forum, which was hosted by the PRA and ...
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Police car chase ends in forecourt smash
A car being pursued by police after a drugs raid crashed on a forecourt in Greater Manchester, narrowly missing the petrol pumps. The chase began after officers from Greater Manchester Police’s Tactical Vehicle Intercept Unit (TVIU) stopped a Volkswagen Caddy van near to the East Lancashire Road, Swinton, on Wednesday ...
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Top 50 Indie helps to defeat Tesco scheme
Top 50 Indie and West Country forecourt operator Chartman is celebrating after the local council rejected plans to build a Tesco supermarket and petrol filling station in the Cornish town of Bude (population 9,900). Chartman, which includes the Bude Service Station in the town among its nine sites, combined with ...
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Grangemouth union official resigns
The union official whose dispute with the chemicals giant Ineos escalated to the stage where it threatened the future of the Grangemouth oil refinery has resigned from his job with the company. Stephen Deans’ union, Unite, released a statement saying: “He has worked at Ineos for 25 years and has ...
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Warning over future of LPG
LPG fuel could disappear from many UK forecourts unless the government makes a long-term commitment to support it, a leading supplier has warned. “Due to its better environmental credentials when compared with petrol and diesel, LPG enjoys a much lower level of fuel duty from the government,” said Paul Oxford, ...
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NewsHigh voltage hazard at forecourt
A site engineer about to valet a forecourt in Staffordshire had a narrow escape after he discovered high voltage overhead cables less than three feet from a price sign. Gary Green, who works for Xmo Strata, spotted the hazard during a last minute risk sssessment, aborted the work and posted ...
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Supermarkets announce cuts in fuel prices
The big four supermarkets have all cut their fuel prices from today. Sainsbury’s reported a 3ppl fuel price cut across its 286 forecourts, and said it was the cheapest price at its pumps for two and a half years. Chris Biggs, Sainsbury’s fuel buyer, said: “We are always looking at ...
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NewsMinister addresses PRA Regeneration Forum
Energy minister Michael Fallon was the keynote speaker at a forum today set up by the PRA to assess how the decline in independent forecourt operators can be arrested. The Regeneration Forum was attended by leading members of the forecourt sector, 11 MPs in addition to the minister and staff ...
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ACS welcomes voice for business victims of crime
Businesses will be able to make Impact Statements when they are victims of crime, as part of new measures announced by the government in the revised Victims Code. The Association of Convenience Stores has welcomed changes to the Code to give a stronger voice to retailers affected by crime. In ...
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Digital advertising launched across Tesco’s forecourts
Tesco has signed a deal which will provide digital advertising and customer messaging across its entire estate of 450 petrol stations in the UK. Tesco, and its customer research specialists Dunnhumby, have signed a partnership deal with digital media network owner Amscreen, which claims the new network will deliver content ...
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PRA to hold forum in Swansea
The PRA’s next Regional Forum is being held in Swansea, on Wednesday 6 November. The event is taking place at The Towers Hotel & Spa, Jersey Marine, Swansea, with coffee available from 10am, and a free buffet lunch will be provided. Topics on the agenda include: PRA – regeneration ...
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Second Simply Fresh on a forecourt opens
The second Simply Fresh store on a forecourt, and the 45th overall, has been launched at Grafton, Bolton. The community launch day event was held by Asif Patel who, together with his family, runs a string of shops in the Bolton area. Asif said he joined Simply Fresh because of ...
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Major tanker problem sparks supply concerns
The government is in talks with the oil industry to ensure the security of fuel supplies after a safety problem affecting about 12% of the British tanker fleet was discovered. About 230 fuel tankers do not meet the standards required to transport dangerous goods by road and will need to ...
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Jail sentences for cigarette smugglers
Prison sentences have been handed down to two men who attempted to smuggle more than eight million cigarettes into the UK from the Republic of Ireland. James Francis McDonnell, 42, from Ferryhill Road, Newry, and Michael Fearon, 21, from The Village, Jonesborough, were arrested by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) ...
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New members strengthen hydrogen cell body
The Greater London Authority, Welsh Government, and Transport Scotland have all joined the UK H2Mobility project. The project aims to promote the use of hydrogen fuel cells in the transport sector, to reduce CO2 emissions for the transport sector, and has been responsible for building hydrogen fuel stations in ...
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Minister backs Small Business Saturday in online chat
Enterprise minister Matthew Hancock will take part in a live chat on Twitter next week to discuss plans for Small Business Saturday and answer questions from small business owners. He will be addressing the background to Small Business Saturday UK, which will take place on December 7, and will be ...